We left our wonderful dock at Port Washington, and made a short run to Oyster Bay. There is a small anchorage right at the head of the bay called "the sand hole". It has a switch back channel into a quiet, protected anchorage. We all slept well after dinner and a swim.
The trouble came when we went to leave. We entered the channel 2 hrs after high tide the night before, and were trying to leave 1 hr before low tide. Well, the abundantly wide channel that we entered, appeared barely wider than our boat as we were trying to navigate out. A lot can change with a 6ft tidal range. In the middle of the switch back there was a small area where we decided to anchor again and wait for more water. Deason and Chris even swam to shore to try and get a better look at the channel to see how wide it was and if we could possibly make it. They determined from their trip ashore that it wasn't worth the risk. (you can see a little of the channel on the middle/left in the picture, between the two sand bars)
Once we set the anchor and the tide started to flood in, we were swinging all over the place, and don't you know we swung right around an old mooring with a crab pot buoy marker. Our line couldn't have gotten more tangled around this thing if we had tried to tangle it ourselves. It took us a good 45 mins to untangle the darn thing. We would rather work all day at untangling than have to deal with the loss of another anchor! Thankfully, this one was salvageable!
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